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Windrose’s Ashlands Update Will Add Modular Arches and Settlement Decor

Planned additions also include climbable ladders, dedicated resource storage, and settlement centers for four building styles.

Bojan Kicevski1 minute ago

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A display of framed paintings from Windrose's Ashlands building and decorating update.

Windrose’s Ashlands update will give settlement builders a broader toolkit, from modular arches and expanded roof pieces to climbable ladders, resource storage, and new decor. Kraken Express says the features are still in development and may change, as outlined in its Nov. 12 Steam announcement.

Ashlands has already been presented as a way to customize ships and characters, including armor transmogrification and dyeing. This building preview extends that focus to the places captains call home, mixing architectural choices with practical additions.

More options for settlement structures

The Old World set will get a modular collection of columns, arches, and ceiling vaults. Builders can combine column bases, shafts, capitals, and arch beams to make pointed Gothic, rounded, half, or rectangular openings. The pieces come in plaster, stone, and wood, with corner vaults to carry the design across a ceiling. New doors include interior and double-door versions, carved styles, and stained-glass designs.

Roof pieces across the building sets will cover a wider range of slopes and sizes, with new corners, triangular sections, ridges, ridge gables, and facade cornices. Stair options include corner steps made from twigs, planks, and logs, along with stone and log staircases and railings in branches, logs, stone, and rope. Old World floors will gain mahogany and cobblestone pieces in regular, large, and triangular shapes. That set will also get floor-ready foundations in mahogany, cobblestone, parquet, and marble, while Highland gains a stone-and-plank version. Larger Old World beams round out the structural additions.

Furniture, storage, and displays

The Swamp set will receive new seating, beds, tables, wardrobes, cabinets, shelving, and lighting, among other furnishings. New bathtubs use materials and details such as branches, leaves, wood, copper, and iron. Carpets range from small rugs to larger designs and runners, while new paintings depict subjects including seascapes, jungles, cities, still lifes, and portraits.

Settlement centers will have indoor and outdoor designs matching the Coastal, Highland, Swamp, and Old World styles. Some include ambient fire or smoke effects. For getting around a base, vertical ladders provide an alternative to stairs, with the option to jump off partway up. Dedicated storage structures for wood, stone, plant fibre, and clay, plus a basket for smaller items, offer more ways to organize supplies.

Captains will also be able to display muskets and pistols in cases, mount firearms on walls, and show melee weapons on stands or plaques, including a design for two-handed weapons. Armor stands add another way to present equipment. Around docks and waterfront builds, straight or sagging decorative ropes, coils, handrails, and upright or overturned wooden boats provide finishing details.

Which of these building additions would change how you plan a settlement? Follow the evolving Ashlands building plans on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.

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